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The festival’s opening night, on Thursday, June 2, 2011, at 20:30, will feature a performance by theArena di Verona Orchestra, performing favorite opera hits, at Jerusalem’s Sultan’s Pool.
Giuliano Carella, conductor
Soloists: Svetla Vassileva: sopranoMariana Pentcheva: mezzo sopranoStefano Secco: tenorLouis-Ottavio Faria: bass
The Orchestra will perform Arias and duets from:
Il trovatore, La traviata, Rigoletto, Falstaff (Verdi)
La boheme, Madama Butterfly, Tosca, Turandot (Puccini)
Il barbiere di Sivigllia (Rossini)
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The Festival’s closing night, on Monday, June 6, 2011, at 20:30, will feature a the Israeli première ofVerdi’s “The Opera Jerusalem”at Jerusalem’s Sultan’s Pool.
The Opera Jerusalem: An opera in four acts.
Libretto: Alphonse Royer and Gustave Vaez after the opera I Lombardi alla prima crociata by Verdi and Temistocle Solera.
Premiere: Paris, Opera, November 26, 1847
Conductor: David Stern
Producer: Moshe Kepten
Set Designer: Bambi Friedman
Lighting Designer: Eyal Tavori
Sound Designer: Yuval Silberstein
Video Designer: Shay Bonder
Concert performance with colorful costumes and spectacular lighting.
Jerusalem, opera by Verdi
Original version performed in French
Soloists:
Helene: Ira BertmanGaston: Scott PiperRoger: TBDThe Count of Toulouse: Roberto ServilleIsaure: Lilia GretsovaRaymond: Felix LivshitzOfficer: Nimrod GrinboimAdhemar de Monteil: Nicolai KarnolskyThe Emir of Ramla: Noah Briger
The Israeli Opera ChorusChorus Master: Yishai Steckler
The Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, IBA
With surtitles in Hebrew and English
Listen to a selection from the Opera Jerusalem
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The Opera Festival in Jerusalem: Arena di Verona and The Opera Jerusalem at the Sultan's Pool
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